Observations on pleuritis and empyema in Children, with cases / by Francis Battersby.

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1847
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    OBSERVATIONS ON PLEUllITIS AND EMPYEMA IN CHILDREN. + Notwithstanding the great attention paid of late years to the diseases of children, so little is known generally on the sub- ject of pleuritis as it affects them, that in one of our standard works it is disposed of by the statement, that “there does not seem to be much tendency to pleuritis in the young subject.”(a) With this opinion I cannot coincide. As it is, however, one very commonly entertained in this country, 1 shall con- sider it necessary to add to the detail of some very interesting cases the results of investigations made by different continen- tal writers, who have clearly demonstrated that pleuritis is very common in young children. The frequency of pleuritis, compared to that of other dis- eases of children, is not easily ascertained. Of 4012(5) patients treated in the year 184G at the London Royal Infirmary for Children, only three were noted as affected with pleuritis; while of 4158(c) admitted in 1845 to the Royal Institution for Dis- eases of Children, in the district of Wiedcn, Vienna, seventy- six were cases of that disease. (a) Maunsell and Evanson on Diseases of Children. (b) Report for the Year 1846 of the Royal Infirmary for Diseases of Children, London. (c) Jahresbericht iiber die Leistungen des Unentgeldlichen Kinder- Kranken- instituts im Polizeibezirhe TVieden. Vienna. 1846.